reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n“Other evidence suggests they could be linked to a top French al Qaida operative, David Drugeon, who\u2019s been the target at least twice of U.S. airstrikes in Syria over the last four months.”<\/p>\n
Yet, even if they didn’t manage to get past U.S. “vetting,” and instead received training from al Qaida alone, the fact that the war they earned their spurs\u00a0in was persisting at all was due to U.S. aid to the rebels.<\/p>\n
This is the kind of blowback\u00a0that is so quick to follow intervention that Scott Horton incisively terms it “backdraft.”<\/p>\n
And once again, just as with Sony and North Korea, the implications concerning empire are getting lost in the hullabaloo over rogue groups allegedly seriously threatening freedom of speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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